As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, Here I send my messenger before your face to prepare the way for you:

Then in the early morning, long before daylight, he got up and went away out to a lonely spot.

And he rose, lifted his pallet at once, and went off before them all; at this they were all amazed and glorified God saying, "We never saw the like of it!"

And whenever the unclean spirits saw him they fell down before him, screaming, "You are the Son of God!"

On catching sight of Jesus from afar he ran and knelt before him,

and the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came forward in fear and trembling and fell down before him, telling him all the truth.

However a number of people who saw them start and recognized them, got to the place before them by hurrying there on foot from all the towns.

and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he blessed them, broke the loaves in pieces which he handed to the disciples to set before them, and divided the two fish among them all.

Then he made the disciples at once embark in the boat and cross before him towards Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd;

As he went out on the road a man ran up and knelt down before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit life eternal?"

Look to yourselves. Men will hand you over to Sanhedrins and you will be flogged in synagogues and brought before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

Jesus said to him, "I tell you truly, to-day you will disown me three times, this very night, before the cock crows twice."

Again he went away and prayed in the same words as before;

At that moment the cock crowed for the second time. Then Peter remembered how Jesus had told him, "Before the cock crows twice you will disown me thrice;" and he burst into tears.

By this time it was evening, and as it was the day of Preparation (that is, the day before the sabbath)